saltstack/salt — pull request #635 by 0xDEC0DE (2012-02-03 08:12:48+00:00)
Title: fix crash bug in linux_sysctl.assign() on Virtuozzo containers

On systems like Virtuozzo containers, "sysctl -w" is not allowed,
ever, and will fail with ENOPERM errors even if one is root. Since
assign() doesn't check exit status or the returned string, this
leads to a nasty stack trace.